Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 602 Fang Kimo is in trouble

"On the ship, you can move freely in the area we have demarcated, but in some confidential areas, you must notify Sergeant James and let him coordinate with us." The captain of the USS Enterprise delineated an action for the crew. The area, mainly the deck area, and a conference room were transformed into a flight control center.

   "About the take-off and landing footage of the aircraft, you must submit a report in advance, which will be arranged by our squadron." The sailing part of the aircraft carrier is under the control of the captain, while the flying part is under the control of the wing commander of the carrier air wing. The crew also had to deal with two command centers.

   "If you have no other doubts, let us wish you all the best of shooting."

  The crowd raised their glasses, and then the senior officer withdrew. They also have navy cruises in hand.

"So, did we give them extra money? Their aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft were also supposed to perform missions, and we had to pay that much." Ronald whispered to the producer Brooksea next to him. silent.

   "On the bright side, it's very rare for the Navy to let us pay."

  After dinner, Ronald returned to his assigned bunk. He was six feet two inches tall, and the bed was a little cramped. The temperature in the cabin was relatively high, and I was sweating a little.

   The bunks that these non-commissioned officers can only sleep in are evenly distributed by the navy. The conditions of the soldiers' bunks were even worse.

  On the entire aircraft carrier, 6,000 people are busy to operate this huge fighting machine. In addition to the people on the ship, at the San Diego Naval Base, there is another rotation of 6,000 people on vacation, which is rotated every six months.

  Ronald has reserved a few quieter cabins for the actors, who most need to be in good shape. He himself and Bruckheimer, and DP Kimball, crammed into a small place, with the humming of some unknown machine.

  In addition to the noise, the temperature is also relatively high. Ronald woke up at five the next morning and simply went out to watch the sunrise over the sea.

   "It's so beautiful!" Ronald looked at the sun rising over the blue sky and blue sea, took out his camera and took a few pictures, wishing to wake up all the actors who were still jet lag, and start shooting now.

   On the Enterprise, the Navy gave five days of filming, every sunrise and sunset moment Ronald didn’t want to waste.

   "Sir, you can only take pictures in the direction of the sea, not on the bridge and the antenna." Sergeant James, who served as the liaison officer, faithfully prevented Ronald from trying to use the bridge to put the idea of ​​​​in the composition.

   "Then I use this director's viewfinder, without film, to see where it is convenient for framing. Come with me and remind me of any sensitive areas."

  "I'd love to", Sergeant James accompanied Ronald, walking all the way on the deck, pointing out some sensitive and easy leaking places to Ronald. At the same time, he told him that those places cannot be photographed, those that can only be photographed in the long-term, and those that need to be blurred, and they were carefully told to Ronald.

  The two returned to the officers' cafeteria and met Tom Cruise and director of photography Kimball.

   "The conference room used as the flight control center is very small, and the actors are probably sweating profusely." Kimball came over to report.

   "It's okay, sweating is more manly." Ronald took orange juice and bread, and the conditions of the officer's dining room were better.

   "How is it, do you like it here?" Ronald asked Cruise at the dining table.

   "Very good, I'm very excited." Tom Cruise was under the pressure of one million worth. When he got to the aircraft carrier, he let go a lot.

   "What happened?" Ronald asked Bruckheimer next to him.

   "The pilots here only ask Tom for autographs." Bruckheimer said with a smile.

   Naval officers and men, especially naval aviation, are a very proud group of people. They seldom chase stars. Among several male protagonists, they only asked Cruise, who had played "Good Boys and Crazy", for an autograph. The other party, Kilmer and others, turned a blind eye, which restored Cruise's strong self-confidence.

   "Action!"

  In the small cabin, the lights took up a large space, and a conference table was fixed on the ground, where a bald actor playing the flight commander was facing the camera, smoking a large cigar.

   With his back to the camera is the actor who plays the pilot of the "Jaguar".

   The flight commander was exhorting him that the Jaguar was locked by the MiG-28 missile because of the air combat, and suffered a sudden psychological obstacle, and finally could not land on the deck of the aircraft carrier in the night sky environment after the sun went down. When the Lone Ranger landed by himself, he knew that the Jaguar did not dare to land at night, so he pulled up to go around, and accompanied the Jaguar to finally land safely.

  The jaguar was still knocked down by the pressure. He remembered his wife and the child he had never met, and insisted on retiring.

   Outside stood Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards, who played the dumb goose. He couldn't squeeze into the small room and watched the shooting from outside.

   "You talked to that little beauty?" Cruise asked Edwards.

   "Yeah, Meg and I are a good fit." Edwards and Meg Ryan, who played his wife, were together on the Miramar base set.

  Her character is also a catalyst for the plot, telling Charlie that the Lone Ranger fell in love with her at first sight at the bar, prompting the Lone Ranger and Charlie to fall for each other.

   Then, when Dutou Goose died unfortunately, he also came to the base to hand over Dutou Goose's dog tag to Lone Ranger, letting him carry Dutou Goose's legacy and move on.

   Meg Ryan is also a college student and has been filming advertisements to pay for her tuition. Her comprehension is stronger than that of ordinary actors. Anthony Edwards took the lead and the two became a pair.

   "What about you? Did you get McGillis?"

   "Nothing, I kissed her in the movie, but her heart seems to be on someone else's side." Tom Cruise pursed his lips.

   "Cut!"

   "Oh..." Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly came out to find an ice cola to cool down. Sweat soaked his shirts one by one, his face and forehead were all heated by the high-power light directly, and the sweat kept flowing down.

   Only Ronald was very satisfied.

   He could imagine that in the movie theater, female audience members would sit up straight when they saw the sweat on the faces of these handsome guys on the screen and their shirts soaked, as if they could smell their sweat.

   In the afternoon, a group of actors came to film.

   "Action!"

The scene this time is the big air battle at the end of the movie. The Iceman played by Val Kilmer proposed to the captain that he did not want the Lone Ranger to be their backup aircraft. to trust each other. This line made him very satisfied. The roles of the two in the movie are similar to those in reality, and they all hate each other.

   "I know what you're thinking, but don't discuss this matter, and execute the order." The bald actor took the posture of the flight commander and asked him to get on the plane and set off.

   "Cut!"

  At dusk, the crew obtained the consent of the flight wing and filmed the scene of the two crews "Iceman" and "Hollywood" on the deck, boarding the plane and set off to fight.

The    wing helped by painting the cockpit cabin with black paint and spraying the pilot's and radar officer's names and callsigns.

   Several crew members on the deck began to pretend to help the actors board the plane. In the light of the setting sun, Val Kilmer raised his thumbs to salute the officers and soldiers, and then converted into a powerful salute.

   "Cut!"

  Tom Cruise went up again, and the Lone Ranger was used as a backup machine this time, and did not dispatch at first. He flipped the Sidewinder missile mounted under the lift plane, it was the real thing.

  Then climbed up the stair and got into the cockpit, he calmed down and put on his helmet. be ready.

   "Cut!"

   The first day shots were done very well.

   "When can we shoot the real fighter takeoff and landing." Ronald came to the real flight commander, who also came to watch the filming of the crew.

   "I heard that you want the light of dusk. We all have tasks these days. As long as the weather is right, I will arrange to take off and land at the right time."

   "Thank you!" Ronald thanked him, then announced the end of filming, disbanded the crew, and everyone could walk in the designated area.

  All the actors began to walk to the restaurant, only Fang Kilmer watched more shots of Cruise than him, and his dissatisfaction was increasing day by day.

   However, the number of people who can shoot on the aircraft carrier is limited, and his manager did not follow, making it impossible to discuss countermeasures.

   "Let's go," he waved to Rick Rossovich, who plays Iceman's radar officer, in a cabin.

   "We're pretty good here. It's quiet and no noise. It's better than the director's bunk." Val Kilmer is still satisfied with his treatment, but he doesn't know what's going on with Tom Cruise.

"Oh, Shxt!", Rick Rossovich turned on the light in the room, slept in a hurry last night, didn't look at the wall by himself, and found a big radiation symbol on the wall today, and there is a line below it Character.

   "What's your name?" Fang Kimer was a little dissatisfied with Rossovich's fuss.

   "Dong dong..." Rick Rossovich knocked on the metal wall, "There should be a nuclear reactor behind this place. No wonder there is no noise here. I didn't see this symbol yesterday."

   "Are you sure?" Fang Kimer got up.

   "Yes, there are lines of small print below, nuclear..."

  Rosovich jumped back suddenly, is this "nuclear" the same nuclear as a nuclear bomb?

   "Damn, I said why they are so kind, let's go."

  The two put on their clothes and quickly left the bunk. Along the passage below the deck of the aircraft carrier, the two walked through many doors and came to the front of the aircraft carrier. Dabingmen along the way saw them wearing pilot uniforms and saluted them.

   "This room is good, or we'll sleep here." The two found a larger bunk and looked at the military uniforms hanging behind the interior door, which was the officer's dormitory.

   "Hey, it's still comfortable here." The two actors quickly fell asleep.

   The next morning, Ronald still got up at five o'clock, and after doing dozens of push-ups, he was about to go out for dinner.

   Sergeant James came to salute him, "Captain, please come over, there is something to discuss."

   "What happened?" Ronald asked, looking at James' face.

   "You have two actors. In the confidential area, you slept in the dormitory bed of the captain of the carrier-based fighter squadron."

"Forehead……"

   "I'm going to call the producer. You wait for us on the deck first."

  Ronald joined Bruckheimer, and they walked along the deck to the bridge. Sergeant James led them up the stairs to the Captain's office in Cambridge.

  The captain's room has the captain and assistants on one side, the squadron commander of the wing on the other, and two actors sit on the bench opposite in the middle. One is Fong Kimer and the other is Rosovic who plays his partner.

   Fang Ji was chewing gum indifferently, looking unhappy. Rossovich hung his head, his arm seemed to be twisted, a little inconvenient.

"Director Li, you have to take care of your people. Don't just go to the officer's lounge to sleep. When we went back this morning, we almost thought we had sneaked in a spy." The squadron leader of the fighter squadron nodded to Ronald, then raised his voice The military hat ruffled his hair.

"Mr. Bruckheimer, the USS America is the most powerful and one of the most secretive surface ships. I agree to let the crew go on board for filming. It is the order of the Navy, but if you continue to violate the rules like this, you will appear in any place that is not allowed. Where it appears, I have to ask you to go down."

   The captain was displeased. The two actors actually passed through such a long crew passage to the pilot area without being found. Today, he will punish those sailors who are not found.

   "Uh... can you let the two actors wash up and have something to eat first?" Ronald asked, scratching his head.

  The captain waved his hand, and the two actors were taken out.

  Ronald glanced at Bruckheimer and saw that the other party asked him to explain first, and only said, "Mr. Captain, Mr. Squadron Captain, first of all I apologize to you. This kind of thing should not happen.

   However, the crew is not a disciplined service. When I speak, it doesn't really work for a captain in the Navy to speak to his subordinates.

  Fong Kilmer is a big star, it's normal for him to not listen to me, and I have no right to fire him. However, I will go to their agent and emphasize that we must obey the discipline of the Navy and ensure that this kind of thing does not happen. "

"you promise?"

   "I can't guarantee the two of them, but the others, I can stress discipline again. I also hope you can give us enough patience and don't punish the whole crew for this."

   "Well", the captain glanced at Ronald with a bad face, "If there are more actors who violate the rules, I will let them leave."

"All right". Ronald also stepped out of the bridge and asked Sergeant James, "Can I call the mainland from here?"

   "Only send telegrams."

   "Uh..." Ronald and Bruckheimer looked at each other, unable to contact Fang Kimmer's agent, it seemed that he could only chat with Fang Kimmer.

   "When we shoot on the aircraft carrier, we must obey their discipline. Don't change the cabin privately. If you are not satisfied, you can tell me, and I will negotiate with the captain." Ronald advised the two actors to restrain themselves.

   "It's nuclear, it's **** horrible." Rick Rossovich had little education.

   "America is a free country, we are just looking for a safe place to sleep, Rick has been sprained by them." Fang Kilmer said with disdain, chewing gum.

   "If you are not satisfied with the place to sleep, we can assist you in changing it. There are still four days on the ship. I hope we can successfully complete the filming. Some of the disciplines on the aircraft carrier, I hope you can abide by it."

   "Huh... Cruise must be treated better than us." After Ronald left, Val Kilmer was very dissatisfied. The officers and soldiers on the ship only asked Tom Cruise to sign, but they did not sign for themselves, a star who also starred in movies.

   (end of this chapter)